" Arus the watchman grasped his crossbow with shaky hands, and he felt beads of clammy perspiration on his skin as he stared at the unlovely corpse sprawling on the polished floor before him. It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight. "

― Robert E. Howard , The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)